Praise the Lord!
The Oklahoma City gospel trip started on Thursday, January 11, with an International Welcome Dinner at the campus house at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. The dinner was to welcome any the international students that were handed fliers earlier that day at a club fair. Six new students attended and heard a gospel message. There were 40 students, serving ones, and community saints there to welcome them. Please pray that these new ones would become remaining fruit during their time here.
On Friday night the 2018 Winter Student Outing began in Oklahoma City with dinner at a saint’s home 2 blocks away from the meeting hall. Following dinner the 46 students and full timers of the Oklahoma City metro (including students from Oklahoma City, Norman, and Edmond) began the series of messages on the tree of life! Message one was titled “Eating the Tree of Life, and Living in the Divine Romance.” The students really enjoyed seeing the connection between eating and the divine romance.
We eat the tree of life by loving the Lord Jesus in the divine romance. Saturday morning the students and full timers gathered again for a special fellowship concerning following Christ in living according to a schedule. The students received two outlines: one on the scheduled life of the Lord Jesus and the other with practical help on how to live a scheduled life. The students were then given an opportunity to make a weekly schedule for this semester.
Later Saturday morning the community saints were invited to join the students. 97 were in attendance. There was a message on the scriptural way to meet and serve, and then the saints were broken up into 16 groups of brothers and sisters for reading ministry excerpts and fellowship. After some overflow, the saints enjoyed lunch together and had some recreation time and rest time. The evening ended with two more messages on working and keeping your heart and different ways to eat the Lord.
Prayer burdens:
1) The new ones would gain companions to pursue with
2) All the students would apply what they have seen and heard this weekend to this upcoming semester that starts on Tuesday.
